Free Stuff: Roughing it at Pioneer Day at Jones Park

Published 1:11 pm, Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Costumed re-enactors, such as blacksmith James Yordy, will be featured at Pioneer Day.

Costumed re-enactors, such as blacksmith James Yordy, will be featured at Pioneer Day.

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Jesse Jones Park Volunteers President Tom Whitesides dressed as an 1830s Texian musters young recruits for protecting the homestead, a scene set for Pioneer Day to be held Saturday, November 9 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. less

Jesse Jones Park Volunteers President Tom Whitesides dressed as an 1830s Texian musters young recruits for protecting the homestead, a scene set for Pioneer Day to be held Saturday, November 9 from 10 a.m. to 4 ... more

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Free Stuff: Roughing it at Pioneer Day at Jones Park

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Pioneer Day at Jones Park

Get a taste of life in the 1820s at Jesse H. Jones Park & Nature Center as it hosts the 27th edition of Pioneer Day. In addition to wagon rides and a petting zoo, the park will have authentically costumed historical re-enactors who will demonstrate settler-era cooking skills, arrow crafting, archery, leather work and more. There even will be a mock skirmish with between the colorfully outfitted Mexican Soldados and the rag-tag Texians.